#zoo pics

[fictionalred-photos]

[atthebell-moved]

baby orangutan!!!

[witchweedz]

I love this tortoise!!! I could watch it all day. So peaceful 🐢🐢🐢

[todaysbird]

despite their duck-like bills and webbed feet, the duck-billed platypus (often known simply as the platypus) is not a bird, but a very unique mammal. this species, endemic to eastern australia, has a number of unique adaptations. they are one of only five species of mammal who lay eggs rather than give live birth. they forage for around 10-12 hours daily, primarily for small aquatic invertebrates like crayfish; they use electroreception to locate their prey. the species is also biofluorescent, turning bluish-green under UV light. male platypuses are also venomous; they have a spur on the back of their hind flippers that produces a venom that can be harmful to humans. females have a small spur, but are not venomous. these creatures are largely antisocial and as such produce few vocalizations, as they rarely communicate among their own species.

[vulturecamera]

Egyptian Vulture

2017

[adam-trademark]

Kansas City Zoo Revisited

(1/9)

(June 29, 2024)

[troutreznor]

lifecycle of the salmon

[hamartia-grander]

Guys I'm fighting tooth and nail against my blood-cursed urge so I don't kill my gorgeous wife but he won't stop vogue posing so I have to roll with disadvantage

[sinatraaloof]

[zackthelion]

oh he got too big steppy for me 😳

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[fidjiefidjie]

🐻 Coucou ! 👋

Gif Giphy

[atthebell-moved]

🐍🐍

[unlabeled (probably a pit viper, maybe a mangrove pit viper), banded water cobra, green tree pythons, green bush viper (probably; if so it's a juvenile), green anaconda]

[witchweedz]

New at the zoo this year was this family of rescued foxes. They had beautiful fur

[sxcredbunn]

not sponsored (but should be)

[agenttommykinard]

tell me a luca fact please

so Luca is really gentle? he doesn't growl and I've only heard him hiss like twice in his whole life

he likes chasing bugs around the house and since he's gentle and has such fluffy paws he'll finally catch a moth for example and when he lifts his paw it just... flies away

even when he's playing with our other cats the claws never come out his main move in playing is just a fluffy body slam but he always the first cat to be submissive